BERKELEYSIDE: Hundreds of people showed up to march on the UC Berkeley campus Saturday in what turned out to be a fake protest organized by a prankster who later identified himself (perhaps falsely) as a Russian national. But the march went on anyway.

A person named Sam Cox listed a march on the Action Network website that was to start at noon at Memorial Glade near Doe Library at UC Berkeley. He cross-listed the march on the Women’s March Bay Area website, though the listing was later taken down. Berkeleyside got an email Thursday about the march and added it to the already-published story listing activities taking place Saturday.

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